The final stretch is here; a 14 game sprint to the end of the season.
The Utah Jazz sit at 33-35 after back to back wins over the tanking Orlando Magic and Charlotte Hornets, netting them a four-way tie for the 9th seed in which the Jazz own the overall tie breaker.
As has been the case for much of the back half of the season, the middle-class of the league is extremely bunched up allowing teams on a weekly basis to oscillate from a playoff birth to narrowly missing the playoffs.